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Realizam ili liberalizam? Teorijske interpretacije antiterorističke strategije Obamine administracije

open access: yesMeđunarodne Studije, 2014
U cilju razumijevanja Obamine liberalno-realistične rasprave, ovaj članak preispituje antiterorističku strategiju njegove administrcije s posebnim naglaskom na tri primarne taktike korištene nakon 11.
Brett Campbell
doaj  

Firm‐Level Political Risk and Earnings Manipulation

open access: yesJournal of Business Finance &Accounting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using recently developed proxies for firm‐level political risk and earnings manipulation, we test the limited attention theory. Contrary to Hirshleifer and Teoh's core prediction that investor attention is associated with less managerial manipulation, we find that firm‐level political risk, serving as a proxy for investor attention, is ...
Hui L. James, Thanh Ngo, Jurica Susnjara
wiley   +1 more source

Sentencing in the Shadow of Promotion: The Impacts of Circuit Court Nomination on Federal Judges

open access: yesJournal of Empirical Legal Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Judges seek to maximize their own utility, like everyone else. Their goals include job security and promotion. Federal judges lack the electoral incentives that often drive state judges, but they could audition for promotion. I test whether they audition for promotion in their criminal sentencing.
Nicholas Goldrosen
wiley   +1 more source

The Shadow Presence of U.S. Models of Parental Involvement in Postcolonial Multilingual Language and Literacy Reforms in Western Highland Mayan Rural School Districts in Guatemala

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study offers a critique of imperialist relations implicit in U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) pedagogical texts and capacity‐building resources designed to support decolonial Indigenous Mayan language and literacy instruction.
Jennifer F. Reynolds
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of the Nuclear Policy Options in the Obama Administration: An Interview with Jon Wolfsthal

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2018
Jon Wolfsthal is renowned for his policy achievements and his well-informed articles on nuclear arms control and nonproliferation issues. He served as special assistant to former US President Barack Obama and as senior director for arms control and ...
Tomoko Kurokawa
doaj   +1 more source

From No Child Left Behind to Flexibility: An Observation from East Asia

open access: yesInternational Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, 2015
Due to the highly demanding requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, it seems out of the question for the U.S. government to achieve the original goal: 100% of students proficient at the national level by 2014.
Robin J. Chen
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of the invasive diatom species Cymbella janischii on riverine microbial biofilm communities and a potential role of bacterially produced zeatin

open access: yesJournal of Phycology, EarlyView.
Abstract The diatom Cymbella janischii is an invasive species in Japan, causing nuisance blooms by forming thick mats in rivers. To date, there are no documented studies on the microbiome associations in C. janischii mats or the processes that drive bloom formation.
Eldrin D. L. R. Arguelles   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Hold on, I'm comin'”: Copyright, political campaigns, and the limits of songwriter control

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how songwriters in the United States object to the unwanted performance of their musical works at live political events, and the legal options available to challenge such uses. Prompted by the repeated use of ‘Hold On, I'm Comin'’ as outro music at Donald Trump's campaign events between 2020 and 2024, and the recent ...
Joel Cooper, Marie Hadley
wiley   +1 more source

Making Transportable Identities Relevant as a Persuasive Device. The Case of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 Concession Speech

open access: yesHermes, 2010
Transportable identities are often extraneous in discourse, but they can be brought to the surface and made relevant, also as a means to persuade an audience. I discuss the case of the concession speech Hillary Rodham Clinton gave on June, 7th 2008 after
Dorien Van De Mieroop
doaj   +1 more source

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